MicroMega Transport Help

I have a Micromega Duo Transport which can still knock spots off most of the
modern competition in the sub £5000 category, when it is playing properly.
Unfortunately I have a recurrent problem in its inability on occasions (about
50% of the time in fact) to read a disc. When I put a disc on the machine,
quite often as it tries to read the disc there is a high pitched noise, the
laser moves right across to the end stop, 99 appears in the display and the disc
comes to a halt, and will not play. If I persevere 4 or 5 times it will
eventually read the disc and play as normal, but as you can imagine this can be
frustrating.

I have heard rumours that micromega used the wrong type of lubricant on some of
their transports which dried out causing problems. Apparently, all you have to
do is clean off all the dried up lube and relubricate with something suitable.

Is this really the case, and if so how exactly does one go about cleaning off
the old lube with what, and from which part of the player and what exactly would
be a suitable replacement lube to apply?

Can anybody plase help me on this?

Now that micromega are no longer distributing in the UK - does anybody know of
anybody who carries spares or is able to do repairs on micromega transports?

Regards

For Mike Hughes (Janet Gleave)